A moisture function of soil heterotrophic respiration that incorporates microscale processes

Zhifeng Yan; Ben Bond-Lamberty; Katherine E. Todd-Brown; Vanessa L. Bailey; SiLiang Li; CongQiang Liu; Chongxuan Liu

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04971-6

Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

A moisture function of soil heterotrophic respiration that incorporates microscale processes

Zhifeng Yan,
Ben Bond-Lamberty,
Katherine E. Todd-Brown,
Vanessa L. Bailey,
SiLiang Li,
CongQiang Liu,
Chongxuan Liu

Affiliations

Zhifeng Yan: Institute of Surface-Earth System Science, Tianjin University
Ben Bond-Lamberty: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory-University of Maryland Joint Global Climate Change Research Institute
Katherine E. Todd-Brown: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Vanessa L. Bailey: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
SiLiang Li: Institute of Surface-Earth System Science, Tianjin University
CongQiang Liu: State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chongxuan Liu: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil and Groundwater Pollution Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04971-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Empirical moisture functions that describe the relationship between soil heterotrophic respiration and moisture introduce considerable uncertainty in soil CO2 flux predictions. Here, the authors derive a process-based moisture function by incorporating mechanisms that control soil heterotrophic respiration.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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